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The Nature Of Statistics

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What this book knows

Sound decisions require data collected and interpreted with disciplined awareness of chance, bias, and the limits of measurement.

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mind-and-cognition

Statistics is a body of methods of obtaining and analyzing data in order to base decisions on them—a branch of scientific method.
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Some idea about P can be formed: extreme possibilities are ruled out, others rendered implausible by the sample evidence.
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Two papers published exactly contrary headlines on the same day—one comparing to the preceding week, the other to the corresponding week a year earlier.
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obedience-and-authority

The technician had been submitting made-up data; meaningfulness of statistical decisions depends on integrity of the process.
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The chief problem was to keep bias, conscious or unconscious, from entering into the selection of the cloud to be seeded.
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Variations among months were no greater than chance alone would explain; there was no best season for safety indoctrination.
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